Patsy Stevenson: Girl arrested at Sarah Everard vigil requires Metropolitan Police to be abolished
A girl arrested on the Sarah Everard vigil has referred to as for the abolition of the Metropolitan Police after she was awarded a payout by the pressure for its actions.
Patsy Stevenson was handcuffed by officers on Clapham Common in March 2021 whereas COVID restrictions had been in place.
Ms Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving Met Officer Wayne Couzens earlier that month.
Both Ms Stevenson and Dania Al-Obeid have now been awarded payouts and apologies following a prolonged authorized battle with UK’s greatest police pressure.
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Speaking to the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge, Ms Stevenson mentioned: “We need to keep up public pressure on the police; they need to absolutely radically reform the entire institution or abolish it, if I’m honest,
“I feel I’m at that time.
“I never thought I’d say that I agree with abolishment, but it’s looking like it’s a good idea in my books.”
Ms Stevenson mentioned she didn’t imagine that new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley could possibly be trusted to type out the pressure.
She mentioned: “I think that he is better at talking than [his predecessor] Cressida Dick was.
“I feel he is superb giving lip service. He’s superb at speaking about issues that he needs to vary, and you understand he is going to do that and going to try this.
“I don’t think he cares, in my opinion.”
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Ms Al-Obeid shared how her experiences reminded of her personal expertise of home abuse, and the way she felt minimised and silenced and blamed.
She mentioned: “And then getting arrested and handled the way we did, it brought me back to that time of being silenced.
“And I used to be like, I could not do it.
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“And I didn’t want to go ahead with a civil claim, and I kind of shied away.”
It was solely when she was convicted beneath COVID rules that Ms Al-Obeid determined to struggle towards the police.
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